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• Teens Don’t Go to Homecoming: One Father’s Lament

  I can only read this as good news: teens no longer go to Homecoming dances. I think the asinine and completely outdated habits these types of traditions hold on to are worth tossing out. Teens seem to agree. Across the country – even in conservative, heartland cities like Wichita, Kan. -- schools are canceling the dances due to a lack of interest or attendance. But this Wall Street Journal writer and father of three girls is deeply saddened Read More... Posted Nov 06 2007, 04:07 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, wall street journal, daddies full of fear, Madeline Holler, girl power, tradition

• Dad-To-Be Asks: Do I Need to Go to My Wife's Doctor Appointments?

  InsideBayArea.com brings us a couple of letters from two dads-to-be, both asking about their wives' doctors' appointments. Armin Brott (who, according to his website  is "America's Most Trusted Dad" - this prompted me to do some research and surveying, and I'm proud to say that I'm "America's 10,298,935th Most Trusted Dad", right behind "Red" from TV's "That 70's Show", but still ahead of Joe Simpson) provided some nice, pat answers to the inquiring future pops. What? You'd like to hear what I'd tell the first guy? Oh, all right... "Q: My pregnant wife has been bugging me to go to all her doctor's appointments. I want to be an involved dad but I can't see any real reason for me to go. Can't I just find out what I need to know by reading books?" A: Are you shitting me? Or did you fall through a temporal rift in 1955 that whisked you to a strange and frightening future, one where husbands are actually real partners to their spouses, and take an active interest in both their wife's and their child's health and well-being? Listen, the beauty of Pay-Per-View is that you can buy and watch Wrestlemania at any time, so you've now lost your biggest excuse to skip out on your wife's appointments. Sure, books are great - Will Smith can read a NASA instruction manual and pow! he's an astronaut; you can read The Expectant Father and pow! you're a dad! It's that easy! Do yourself, and your family - believe it or not, this fatherhood thing is actually not all about you - a favor and go to the appointments. While you're at the hospital, you can get your knuckles looked at. I'm sure they've got to be infected, what with them constantly scraping the ground when you walk.     Posted Mar 26 2007, 08:17 AM by JasonAvant with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: doctor visits, dads, are you insane?, daddy, daddies full of fear, Armin Brott

• Woman Delivers Baby at 100 mph

  I think every woman who has borne a child without drugs can relate to this:  imagine that you are so ready to push that baby out, you know it's time, I mean baby IT'S TIME, when some ever-so-helpful medical-type person says, "Don't push."  Don't what??  Are you freaking kidding me??  There is no.way.in.hell that a woman bent on pushing that %$#*& baby out is going to be able to stop when someone says, "Oh, by the way?  Don't."   This happened to me when my older daughter was born and they felt they needed to get me in the delivery room (it was a medieval hospital that had never heard of the term "birthing suite") and were loathe to the idea of me pushing along the way.  Screw that. So I totally can relate to poor Lisa Tauer, being driven to the hospital by her husband Jerome, when goldarnit she just couldn't help but have that baby right there in the car on the way to the hospital.  So what's new with that? you ask.  That's been done before.  Zillions of times.  Nope, not at 100 mph it hasn't.  Apparently dad-to-be Jerome was so freaking scared to maybe have to deal with this messy baby thing himself that all he could do was speed to the hospital.  Uh, hello, Jerome?  Ever stop to think that you were risking the lives of your wife and that baby there?  By driving 90 and 100 mph through the farmlands of Wisconsin while yelling "Don't push!" to your wife?  Not cool, Jerome.  You should have stopped and at least offered Lisa a granola bar or something.  Anything.  Anything would have been better than being so gripped by your fears of a teeny widdle baby that you had to speed like that.  Get a grip, Jerome; you're a daddy now.  It's time to grow up.   Posted Mar 24 2007, 09:15 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: babies, Wisconsin, birthing in cars, daddies full of fear